{"product_id":"courting-disaster-zoz-mcgee-9781526188854","title":"Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver since the novel was invented, women have used it as a platform for sharing ideas about sexual consent. Dr Zoë McGee reveals how Jane Austen, Frances Burney and their now-overlooked contemporaries used their stories to try to change society's mind about rape culture - and to reassure survivors they were not alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCourting Disaster takes a timely deep-dive into a series of classic novels, comparing them with both historic court records and current events to show that our arguments about consent are not a new phenomenon. With the wit and wryness of a courtship novel, McGee reads between the lines to unveil a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today. Because every novel about marriage is also a novel about consent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an era that's clamouring for a return to the values of the past, Courting Disaster asks what that would really mean, and whether anyone actually liked it back then anyway...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoë McGee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526188856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526188854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Zoë McGee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47200789364991,"sku":"9781526188854","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4abeeb1b-1a7a-464d-8797-8d034436cbf2.jpg?v=1756787858","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/courting-disaster-zoz-mcgee-9781526188854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}